Chapter 2287 - 1210: The Great Battle Ends (Part 4)

Seeing the formidable enemy at their rear, Sheng Jingxuan decisively abandoned the plan to personally capture Yang Xiao. Instead, he used the brush he had raised towards Yang Xiao to heavily strike Liu Hanzheng.

Liu Hanzheng indeed lived up to his reputation as a renowned expert, as this powerful blow only caused his body to pause slightly.

However, utilizing this momentary respite, Sheng Jingxuan returned to the elders loyal to him. He then waved his hand, tossing out several black elixirs, consuming one himself first.

"Elders, take the elixirs and fight to the death with me!" Sheng Jingxuan’s voice was resolute.

Seeing Sheng Jingxuan consume it, with his spiritual power surging in a short time, the other elders no longer hesitated. They all took the elixir, and immediately, their faces flushed as they felt an endless force washing through their bodies, clearly indicating the potent nature of the elixir.

"For the Yiling Academy, kill!" Sheng Jingxuan was the first to charge towards the onrushing Liu Hanzheng.

The rest of the academy elders, as if injected with adrenaline, recklessly fought against Yang Xiao and his group.

Initially, Yang Xiao’s group had surrounded these elders, but given the fierce battle that had already transpired, their spiritual power was heavily depleted. Now, suddenly being assaulted by several powerful elders, their defensive line was momentarily shaken.

But in just an instant, thanks to their superior numbers, Yang Xiao’s group quickly stabilized their footing. However, developments exceeded Yang Xiao’s expectations. Just as he clashed with an elder who had taken the elixir, the elder’s strike was much more forceful than before, at least twice as strong. Furthermore, after the clash, the elder’s appearance became increasingly terrifying, his face beyond flushed, resembling a mask of blood.

These elders seemed to have lost their rationality, growing braver as the battle went on, willing to trade injuries without fear of death.

Even when severely wounded, they paid no heed, charging relentlessly.

Yang Xiao realized something was amiss. These people seemed...as if they were being backlashed by a magic artifact, or they had gone mad.

Even more terrifying was that they appeared unable to distinguish friend from foe, even slashing at their own allies.

But before Yang Xiao could delve deeper, a strange scene unfolded. One of the elders was killed by several experts from the Mo Family who had come to aid them.

As his head was severed, his body decayed and turned black at a visible speed, releasing a bluish-gray mist.

One Mo Family expert failed to retreat in time and was contaminated by the strange mist. Where the mist touched his skin, it turned blood red at an observable speed and, just like those elders, began indiscriminately attacking those nearby.

"The mist is poisonous, avoid it quickly!" Within just thirty seconds, over a dozen people were infected by the mist, creating total chaos.

Once these newly infected individuals were killed, they also became sources of poisonous mist. If they were not killed, they would inevitably attack others.

Meanwhile, the instigator Sheng Jingxuan remained unaffected; he didn’t go mad, nor did his body undergo any abnormal changes.

Yang Xiao understood because the pills Sheng Jingxuan took himself were legitimate elixirs, while those given to the elders were poisonous.

The scene became increasingly chaotic, with the maddened poison men. This poison mist wasn’t entirely invincible; the majority affected were relatively weaker Angels, and there were, as yet, no instances of half-step Nether Realm experts being infected, but it was only a matter of time.

Given more time, as the sources of poison increased and the mist thickened, it would only be a matter of time before those infected were killed.

Yang Xiao never expected Sheng Jingxuan to be so ruthless, daring to use such substances within the academy. Once this thing spread, the entire academy would become a death zone.

Fears realized, an Angel under the influence of the toxic mist broke through the encirclement, starting to flee outward.

At this moment, someone intervened. One person held a sky-blue porcelain bottle; once opened, the nearby toxic mist was swiftly absorbed into it. Another person swiftly moved through the crowd, dispersing a white powder.

Once the powder touched the ground where the poison sources lay, it acted like an acid, rapidly dissolving the corpses, halting any further release of mist in the process.

These two individuals dressed in Mo Family attire with covered faces, but Yang Xiao immediately recognized them as members of the Esoteric Sect.

One man named Zhou Shen and a woman named Yao Yun, dispatched by his adoptive father, Cannibal Buddha, as elders to the academy.

Initially, Yang Xiao didn’t think much of these two, but now it was clear they had considerable skill, his adoptive father indeed being shrewd, with these two as a secret weapon.

Yang Xiao roughly deduced that the methods involving toxic corpses likely weren’t domestic and were most likely a trump card secretly taught to Sheng Jingxuan by the Dharma Sect.

While the Esoteric Sect and Dharma Sect were mortal enemies, having fought long and bloody battles, naturally they were quite familiar with each other’s methods. Yang Xiao’s adoptive father specifically assigned these two to counter the Dharma Sect’s tactics.

Indeed, expertise lies in specialization; once these two joined in, the toxic corpses were quickly dealt with, and the Apostles who broke out of the encirclement were eliminated, bringing the situation under control.

After witnessing Sheng Jingxuan’s malicious treachery, the academy elders and martial artists who originally fought for him began dropping their weapons, raising their hands in surrender while cursing Sheng Jingxuan and his ancestors.

At this point, the only ones still resisting were the Bone Painting Tower’s group.

Each of them controlled Puppets, using them to guard the outermost defensive line, and Yang Xiao didn’t bother to fight them, suffice it to keep them surrounded.